
This year, the accumulation of several mistakes led to his not completing the third loop in under 36 hours, which is required for a fourth loop attempt. Though it appeared he had finished a shocking six seconds too late, he actually took a wrong turn, returning to camp from the wrong direction. Robbins came closer to conquering the notoriously difficult race last year, when he took a wrong turn on the final lap. “I will return for a fourth go, but honestly we don’t know when that will be.” Photo: Brice Ferre “I did a 36-hour race, not the 60 hour event I’d set out to, and I am unsettled and rife with emotion,” Robbins writes near the end of the absorbing story, asking for time to process the events of last week before being pressed for a decision on whether he will be back next year.
